Friday, January 31, 2025

Friday

 We will read the 2nd half of pages 528-543 and working on questions 1-10 on page 564.


 1. Where was Andrew Carnegie born? 

2. The companies Carnegie developed produced what product? 

3. What is verticle integration? (Carnegie's basic business model) 

4. What two main activities did Carnegie argue every industrialist should pursue? 

5. Why do you think Carnegie donated so much money to build libraries?

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Thursday

 Today we will look at immigration after the Civil War. We will be reading pages 528-543 and working on questions 1-10 on page 564.


1. How much did the American economy grow during the Gilded Age? 

2. What allowed products and resources to be shipped across the United States? 

3. What did many call the wealthy heads of companies during the Gilded Age? 

4. What was one of the largest strikes of the Gilded Age? 

5. How do you think the disparity of wealth affected American culture?

Monday, January 27, 2025

Tuesday

 We are going to read 441 - 451 and do questions 14-18 on page 452.

1. What political party had basically held control of Congress and Presidency in the years following the Civil War? 

2. Who were the candidates running for President in 1876? 

3. What did Hayes agree to do as part of the Compromise of 1877? 

4. What did Democratically controlled Southern states begin to do after the inauguration? 

5. What was the long-term outcome of the Election of 1876 and Compromise of 1877?


Friday, January 24, 2025

Friday

 Study Questions for today's reading (please get the page numbers from Mr. Cremata)

1) Describe how Reconstruction might have been different if Lincoln had lived?

2) Describe the Radical Republicans Reconstruction plans?

3) What was the meaning of the Tenure of Office Act?

4) What were "black codes"?

5) What was the Wade-Davis Bill?

6) What were the goals of the Republicans during the Reconstruction?

7) Define the terms Carpetbaggers and Scalaways.


Thursday, January 23, 2025

Thursday

 You have an Edpuzzle on the Reconstruction to do today. Please use headphones. If you need to borrow some please get them from the library.

 

Monday, January 20, 2025

Tuesday

 We are going to see your presentations, review for tomorrow's test on the Civil War and look at the last section of the Civil War in your textbooks.


1. What was Robert E Lee's plan after the fall of Richmond? 

2. Where had Wilbur McLean lived before moving to Appomattox Courthouse? 

3. Who actually wrote the surrender documents? 

4. What were the terms of surrender? How was Grant generous? 

5. Why do you think President Lincoln wanted to be kind to the Confederates when they surrendered?

Friday, January 17, 2025

Friday

 

 We are going to read pages 221-246 today and tomorrow.

Please answer the following 

1)Bull Run; Antietam; Shiloh; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Vicksburg; and Appomattox Courthouse.

Some people you should know: 

2) Robert E. Lee, Ulyssey's S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Tecumseh Sherman, John Wilkes Booth.

3) Documents: The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's 1st and 2nd Inaugural Addresses; 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.  




1. Research suggests that the total number of Americans killed in the war could be as high as what? 

2. What is the time period right after the Civil War known as? 

3. Why did Lincoln need to get the 13th Amendment passed before the war ended? 

4. What were Black Codes? 

5. What do you believe is the most important lasting outcome of the Civil War? Why?

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Thursday

 We are going to read pages 221-246 today and tomorrow.

Please answer the following 

1)Bull Run; Antietam; Shiloh; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Vicksburg; and Appomattox Courthouse.

Some people you should know: 

2) Robert E. Lee, Ulyssey's S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Tecumseh Sherman, John Wilkes Booth.

3) Documents: The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's 1st and 2nd Inaugural Addresses; 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.  


1. What did Lincoln see as being the only way to make sure slavery was abolished forever? 

2. What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

3. What did the 14th Amendment establish?

4. How did many southern states attempt to get around the 15th Amendment? 

5. Why do you believe the 14th Amendment did not extend rights to all people and why did it take so long to correct errors of the 15th Amendment?

Monday, January 13, 2025

Tuesday

 Please read the Gettysburg Address (it's attached to this bottom of this form) SOAPSTONE it. Then practice showing your presentations to Riley.

1. Who was the featured speaker at the dedication? 

2. What did Lincoln mean when he said, "Four score and seven years ago"? 

3. What might Lincoln have meant by "unfinished work"? 

4. What is Lincoln referring to when he says, "of the people, by the people, for the people"? 

5. Why do you believe the Gettysburg Address has become Lincoln's most well-known speech?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

Friday, January 10, 2025

Monday

 Today you have time to work on projects.

Study guide of things you need to know for the test:

Some battles you should know:

1)Bull Run; Antietam; Shiloh; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Vicksburg; and Appomattox Courthouse.

Some people you should know: 

2) Robert E. Lee, Ulyssey's S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Tecumseh Sherman, John Wilkes Booth.

3) Documents: The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's 1st and 2nd Inaugural Addresses; 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.  

Civil War Projects
Powerpoint Presentations:

w/ bullet point notes.

If it is a battle:

A) Date(s)
B) Commanders
C) Winner
D) Importance of the battle (meaning - what was it about; why did it happen; what were the objectives; where did it lead - what happened afterwards)
E) Story/Diary from the battle (soldier) or 3-4 quotes about the battle (by people alive during the Civil War)
F) Why did you learn

Also Needed:

10 photos from the Civil War (photos of commanders, photos or battle field, the soldiers, the dead)
2 current photos of the battlefield
1 piece of Civil War music
1 website


PEOPLE

A) Birth/Death dates for each person
B) List of major achievements during the Civil War (at least 5 for each)
C) Importance during the Civil War and after
D) 4 quote from each person during the war or about the war
E) 4 photos of the person during their life (at least 2 during the war)
F) 1 photo of monuments/grave stone of each person
G) 1 photo of family and/or significant others
H) 1 story about the death or things that happened during the war
I) 1 piece of Civil War music
J) 1 website link

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Thursday

 Today we will read the emancipation proclamation. And look at pages 389-400.

HW: You will need to SOAPSTONE the emancipation proclamation.


1. Who was the new commander of the Army of the Potomac after Fredericksburg? 

2. What does Robert E Lee do that is completely unexpected? 

3. What did Stonewall Jackson do on the second day of the battle that surprised the Union? 

4. What did Robert E Lee prepare to do after the Battle of Chancellorsville? 

5. How do you believe the war might have been different if Stonewall Jackson survived?

Wednesday

 Today we are going to look at the next section of the text.

Afterwards you will need to discuss what the emancipation proclamation did and what it was a political weapon? How did it help the north?


1. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? 

2. TRUE OR FALSE: Lincoln did not free any enslaved people with the proclamation. 

3. Lincoln argued he had the authority to issue the proclamation based upon what? 

4. Lincoln's cabinet convinced him to wait for what before issuing the proclamation? 

5. How do you think the Civil War changed after the Emancipation Proclamation?

Monday, January 6, 2025

Tuesday - Welcome Back!

 Today we are going to read textbooks pages 371-381. 

Answer the following questions: 

1) List and outline who the key people in this chapter are and were.

2) What do you think were General McClellan's major tactical errors? Support your response with details from the text.

3) Do you think Lincoln's decsion to fire McClellan was a good one? Why or why not? How do you think that decision would affect the outcome of the war?

4) Discuss the Battle of Antietam. Why was it important? What exactly happened?

Study guide of things you need to know for the test:

Some battles you should know:

1)Bull Run; Antietam; Shiloh; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Vicksburg; and Appomattox Courthouse.

Some people you should know: 

2) Robert E. Lee, Ulyssey's S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Tecumseh Sherman, John Wilkes Booth.

3) Documents: The Emancipation Proclamation, The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's 1st and 2nd Inaugural Addresses; 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.  

Civil War Projects
Powerpoint Presentations:

w/ bullet point notes.

If it is a battle:

A) Date(s)
B) Commanders
C) Winner
D) Importance of the battle (meaning - what was it about; why did it happen; what were the objectives; where did it lead - what happened afterwards)
E) Story/Diary from the battle (soldier) or 3-4 quotes about the battle (by people alive during the Civil War)
F) Why did you learn

Also Needed:

10 photos from the Civil War (photos of commanders, photos or battle field, the soldiers, the dead)
2 current photos of the battlefield
1 piece of Civil War music
1 website


PEOPLE

A) Birth/Death dates for each person
B) List of major achievements during the Civil War (at least 5 for each)
C) Importance during the Civil War and after
D) 4 quote from each person during the war or about the war
E) 4 photos of the person during their life (at least 2 during the war)
F) 1 photo of monuments/grave stone of each person
G) 1 photo of family and/or significant others
H) 1 story about the death or things that happened during the war
I) 1 piece of Civil War music
J) 1 website link 


 

1. By the end of 1861, how many total soldiers are trained and ready to fight in the war? 

2. What was the name of the Union plan for victory?
 
3. What was the Confederacy's basic military strategy? 
 
4. What was the first major battle fought west of the Mississippi River? 
 
5. Think back to the Union plan for victory. Can you think of any other objectives they should have included in their plan? Why?

Week of May 12-16

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